Show ATEMPTE SUCIE I The Pitiful Plight ofH Palmer Alias T A Clemens I ALONE AMONG STRANGERS I I WITH POVERTY A SICKNESS FOR HIS COMPANIONS Attempted to Pass a Forged Check Was Arrested and Held For Trial Left n Letter For His Sister Who Lives I the City of Stral sand Germany A stranger in a strange land with only poverty and sickness for his companions com-panions H Palmer alias T A Clem mens unsuccessfully attempted suicide yesterday morning In his prison cell Only a few hours before the prisoner had been committed to the county jail In default of 500 bail to await trial on the charge of having forged the name of Attorney Hiram E Booth toa check of 520 drawn on the National Bank of the Republic Palmer must have had a quantity of morphine secreted about his person when a policeman delivered him to Jailer Raleigh for In reply to the Jail ers question the ollicer In charge of the forger stated that he had been duly searched at the police station Palmer suddenly became very ill and an Investigation Inves-tigation revealed the fact that he had taken a large quantity of morphine in fact the greater part of 15 grains In quartergrain tablets Owing to his having swallowed too much of the drug his attempt at suicide was productive pro-ductive of no more serious results than a severe spell of sickness Dr Gemmel attended the prison patient and made him as comfortable as possible but he was too ill to talk AN EXPLANATORY NOTE Palmer or Clemmens wasdeliberate and determined in attempting selfde indi struction as his dying message cates I was written in German on three small sheets of paper with a lead pencil Translated It reads My Dear Good Sister My end is near I forgive you all I shall be buried when by the time you receive this I was accused of forging 1 bill of exchange but I would not have done it had I not been sick Now good bye and forget your unfortunate brother Please send this to Mrs Marie Faust Stralsund Germany Palmer WPS sent to Salt Lake earlv In the week from Oregon as a consumptive consump-tive pauper The authorities believe he has not yet reveaed his true name |